[OpenAFS] openafs and win2k? wrt transarc 3.6.2.5 release
Michael Nelson
mikenel@iapetus.com
Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:48:57 -0500 (EST)
I've gotten OpenAFS to build on Win2K -- and just like on Linux (for me at
least), certain files weren't copied into the right places, and the
Makefiles needed some minor tweaks. I've narrowed down roughly why
OpenAFS isn't working, but I haven't figured out how to fix it (yet).
Rather than write an NT file system driver, Transarc implemented a mini
SMB (Microsoft's file sharing protocol) implementation that runs locally.
Their SMB server registers itself as if it were another fileserver on a
fictitious machine called "<machine-name>-afs". It acts as a gateway to
AFS and also provides a way for the various tools (e.g. fs) to send
ioctl's to the AFS cache manager. All of this is done via the NetBIOS
system (yuck).
>From another computer I can actually do a "dir \\<machine-afs>\all" (all
is a special internal share used for AFS IOCTL's) and get an error message
that no connections are allowed (by default AFS doesn't allow remote
machines to connect to an AFS cache manager's SMB server). But, I can't
connect to it locally (using dir).
I've fiddled with LANA IDs (in NetBIOS, you send/receive datagrams on a
specific LAN adapter), scoured the Microsoft Knowledge Base, but haven't
come up with anything interesting. I've been thinking about installing
Win2k SP1, but I'm having modem problems today.
Because I don't have the commercial version of AFS or the InstallShield
kit, I had to (painstakingly) figure out which registry settings and files
had to be created. The cache manager does make contact with my cell when
starting, and klog does work, so I am pretty confident that I have
configure the (minimal) settings.
-mike